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The Blogworld Expo show in Las Vegas is on the roll. In the session “Search Engine Optimization: Best Practices”, the speakers focused on SEO tips for bloggers.

Here are top Blogging SEO Tips from the best:

Vanessa Fox, formerly of Google, now with Zillow.com discussed what SEO really is. Vanessa said “From a search engine perspective the goal that they have is that they just want to get people off the search page as fast as possible and get to the answer.” If bloggers can make their blog the most relevant and useful as possible from a search engine perspective their blog will rank.

Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim said he uses title tags to get RSS readers and later changes them for search engines. Beal said, “Basically you have two audiences for post titles. The first audience is the clickthrough audience the people who are going to look at this through an RSS reader. These people are the people I want to entice to come to my site.” Make the title enticing to attract readers. After a day or two he said he would focus on the secondary audience and position his title for Google readers or people who will go to his site via a search engine. Beal said he changes his title tag and post title as well to optimize it for the search engines.

Stephan Spencer of Netconcepts spoke about incorporating tags. He said,” Optimizing your title tag is extremely important and one of the most important on page factors. It really sets the keyword focus for the page.” By optimizing the title tag independently of the post title your blog will be in a better position. You can incorporate synonyms and keep your post title at about seven or eight words.

For those who don’t know, BlogWorld & New Media Expo is the first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media.